October
@toebeans.bsky.social
🧶🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 39yo trans bear. Ottawa. He/him
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America is mostly just about capturing people and putting them in concentration camps now
July 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
America is mostly just about capturing people and putting them in concentration camps now
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I demand doll doctor who dammit dooweeeeoooo
I spoke to The Handbook about what it’s like filming an action role, my dreams for Doctor Who, and confidence!
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June 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I demand doll doctor who dammit dooweeeeoooo
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In a move of strategic genius, I am dropping my Take on the Sex Wars in the middle of a much bigger story so that no-one will pay attention to it. No paywall, though! jude-doyle.ghost.io/this-is-how-...
This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars
Trying to pick a pathway through forty years of the ugliest conflict in feminism.
jude-doyle.ghost.io
June 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In a move of strategic genius, I am dropping my Take on the Sex Wars in the middle of a much bigger story so that no-one will pay attention to it. No paywall, though! jude-doyle.ghost.io/this-is-how-...
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This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
June 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
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ErinReed 17 Jun 25 -- As happened with trans prisoners denied care, a fed judge grants class certification for _all_ trans people seeking passports w/ correct gender (or "X" designation) not just the named plaintiffs in the current pending lawsuit on this matter.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Federal Judge Grants Class Status To Trans People In Passport Case In Massive Win
Transgender people may be able to update their passports shortly.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
ErinReed 17 Jun 25 -- As happened with trans prisoners denied care, a fed judge grants class certification for _all_ trans people seeking passports w/ correct gender (or "X" designation) not just the named plaintiffs in the current pending lawsuit on this matter.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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"instead of listening to a podcast I just ask AI to tell me about a subject" buddy just have a grade school child, the answers will be just as suspect, the energy will be much more enthusiastic, and you cannot split a milkshake with chatgpt for fun
June 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"instead of listening to a podcast I just ask AI to tell me about a subject" buddy just have a grade school child, the answers will be just as suspect, the energy will be much more enthusiastic, and you cannot split a milkshake with chatgpt for fun
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I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
June 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
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First Nation leaders are in Ottawa calling out Mark Carney's Bill C-5 attack on Indigenous rights.
C'mon Mark, is your first "nation-building" act to run roughshod through Indigenous territory for a pipeline?
People voted for you to be the anti-MAGA MAPLE.
Instead, you've stolen their playbook.
C'mon Mark, is your first "nation-building" act to run roughshod through Indigenous territory for a pipeline?
People voted for you to be the anti-MAGA MAPLE.
Instead, you've stolen their playbook.
June 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
First Nation leaders are in Ottawa calling out Mark Carney's Bill C-5 attack on Indigenous rights.
C'mon Mark, is your first "nation-building" act to run roughshod through Indigenous territory for a pipeline?
People voted for you to be the anti-MAGA MAPLE.
Instead, you've stolen their playbook.
C'mon Mark, is your first "nation-building" act to run roughshod through Indigenous territory for a pipeline?
People voted for you to be the anti-MAGA MAPLE.
Instead, you've stolen their playbook.
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Talk to people irl, even smart people, and you'll quickly find that the vast majority do not know that AI makes things up, or plagiarizes, or destroys the environment. Knowing the things about AI we take as given here is like knowing internet memes; people who aren't Very Online tend to have no clue
I was in a doctor's office and the doctor looked something up to show me. I was stunned: He read the AI result. I told him I tend to scroll past and avoid the AI result Google shows first as it is not always accurate.
June 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Talk to people irl, even smart people, and you'll quickly find that the vast majority do not know that AI makes things up, or plagiarizes, or destroys the environment. Knowing the things about AI we take as given here is like knowing internet memes; people who aren't Very Online tend to have no clue
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People will really use unethical, theft-based, environmentally unfriendly AI models to disappear into personal delusions about religion and generally lose their minds, when topamax is already available as an inexpensive generic pill
June 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
People will really use unethical, theft-based, environmentally unfriendly AI models to disappear into personal delusions about religion and generally lose their minds, when topamax is already available as an inexpensive generic pill
Please someone help me out. I feel like I’m in upside down banana pants world here. HOW was I derailing when I was AGREEING with his premise??? What am I missing here? Have I said a word with a double meaning I don’t know about?? I don’t know how we got here.
bsky.app/profile/cybe... okay heres the original thread. someone replied to it with a criticism of radical feminism, which i engaged with, and then october sent this reply
June 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Please someone help me out. I feel like I’m in upside down banana pants world here. HOW was I derailing when I was AGREEING with his premise??? What am I missing here? Have I said a word with a double meaning I don’t know about?? I don’t know how we got here.
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Forever and always!!
June 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Forever and always!!
“What part of that is hard to grasp?” The part where I’m grieving. And this grief in particular has stuck around because it is so politically charged that I am often re-harmed when trying to process it openly. I refuse this gendered expectation that good men shouldn’t grieve inconvenient pain.
ya man this is what im talking about. the women you were around were pieces of shit transphobes. what part of that is hard to grasp
Feminists were my first introduction to gender. They helped me deprogram from the conservative family I was raised in. They constantly urged me to be my most authentic self. To be caring and responsible. And I believed them when they said all men are bad, so I repressed my manhood for decades.
June 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“What part of that is hard to grasp?” The part where I’m grieving. And this grief in particular has stuck around because it is so politically charged that I am often re-harmed when trying to process it openly. I refuse this gendered expectation that good men shouldn’t grieve inconvenient pain.
Feminists were my first introduction to gender. They helped me deprogram from the conservative family I was raised in. They constantly urged me to be my most authentic self. To be caring and responsible. And I believed them when they said all men are bad, so I repressed my manhood for decades.
'feminists dont want me to be a man' is always lowkey suspicious to me because it doesnt matter what feminists want. CISHETERO SOCIETY doesnt want us to be men lmao. your family doesnt want you to be a man! wtf do you mean feminists lol, theyre at the bottom of my concerns
June 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Feminists were my first introduction to gender. They helped me deprogram from the conservative family I was raised in. They constantly urged me to be my most authentic self. To be caring and responsible. And I believed them when they said all men are bad, so I repressed my manhood for decades.
I try my best to be a source of celebratory revolution. Being the change I want to see. Embodying my beliefs, one of which is radical empathy. And it breaks my heart every time when I respond to someone about their ideas with joy and enthusiasm and they can’t hear me, they take me in bad faith.
June 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I try my best to be a source of celebratory revolution. Being the change I want to see. Embodying my beliefs, one of which is radical empathy. And it breaks my heart every time when I respond to someone about their ideas with joy and enthusiasm and they can’t hear me, they take me in bad faith.
I think if a guy I was dating pulled out a life size doll of me during foreplay I’d make him have sex with it while I meticulously directed him about what I like. Sounds like fun actually. This guy missed out on a good goofy time!
June 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I think if a guy I was dating pulled out a life size doll of me during foreplay I’d make him have sex with it while I meticulously directed him about what I like. Sounds like fun actually. This guy missed out on a good goofy time!
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Agreed. And unfortunately many feminist and leftist philosophies are hinged on a fixed idea of hegemonic masculinity being inherent and universal. The “yes all men” crowd are very threatened by a man who faces systemic sexism, who is embodying a celebratory masculinity with the power to heal manhood
June 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Agreed. And unfortunately many feminist and leftist philosophies are hinged on a fixed idea of hegemonic masculinity being inherent and universal. The “yes all men” crowd are very threatened by a man who faces systemic sexism, who is embodying a celebratory masculinity with the power to heal manhood
I love men. I love that manhood exists. I just got home from a baritone sectional for my gay choir and it filled my soul so completely. I love being a man singing about love with other men. The kind of love that bell hooks hoped for. I can’t defeat patriarchy, but I can be a loving man loving men.
June 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I love men. I love that manhood exists. I just got home from a baritone sectional for my gay choir and it filled my soul so completely. I love being a man singing about love with other men. The kind of love that bell hooks hoped for. I can’t defeat patriarchy, but I can be a loving man loving men.
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"The fundamental fear trans people represent is that manhood isn't special, anyone can have it, and not everybody wants it."
Goddamn if that isn't an absolute glory of a sentence. The whole thread is beautiful, but that sentence? *chefkiss*
Goddamn if that isn't an absolute glory of a sentence. The whole thread is beautiful, but that sentence? *chefkiss*
I think there's other stuff about wanting certain bodies available for sexual exploitation and child bearing/raising, but the fundamental fear trans people represent is that manhood isn't special, anyone can have it, and not everybody wants it.
Trans men represent the "anyone can have it" part.
Trans men represent the "anyone can have it" part.
I think a huge error that's often made in analysis of trans men's political situation is framing it as "the intersection of hatred towards trans people and hatred towards men" rather than "the trans version of hatred towards potential usurpers of hegemonic manhood"
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"The fundamental fear trans people represent is that manhood isn't special, anyone can have it, and not everybody wants it."
Goddamn if that isn't an absolute glory of a sentence. The whole thread is beautiful, but that sentence? *chefkiss*
Goddamn if that isn't an absolute glory of a sentence. The whole thread is beautiful, but that sentence? *chefkiss*
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Dying for Sex kind of the best show on tv in a very very long time
April 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Dying for Sex kind of the best show on tv in a very very long time
I just finished this series and it was SO GOOD!!
I’ve long believed that confronting our grief is the most potent type of healing our society needs.
This story isn’t just about sex and death, but how free we can become when we give ourselves over to love.
I’ve long believed that confronting our grief is the most potent type of healing our society needs.
This story isn’t just about sex and death, but how free we can become when we give ourselves over to love.
‘DYING FOR SEX’ received 3 nominations at The Gothams: 2025 Television Awards
• Breakthrough Limited Series
• Outstanding Lead Performance in a Limited Series (Michelle Williams)
• Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Limited Series (Jenny Slate)
• Breakthrough Limited Series
• Outstanding Lead Performance in a Limited Series (Michelle Williams)
• Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Limited Series (Jenny Slate)
May 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I just finished this series and it was SO GOOD!!
I’ve long believed that confronting our grief is the most potent type of healing our society needs.
This story isn’t just about sex and death, but how free we can become when we give ourselves over to love.
I’ve long believed that confronting our grief is the most potent type of healing our society needs.
This story isn’t just about sex and death, but how free we can become when we give ourselves over to love.
Diarrhea two weeks out from an abdominal hysterectomy is not for the weak. I had way too much fiber and now I’m paying the price. Ow. Ouch.
April 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Diarrhea two weeks out from an abdominal hysterectomy is not for the weak. I had way too much fiber and now I’m paying the price. Ow. Ouch.
How come oboe sounds so classy and high minded like you’re watching over your grand estate with a chintz cup of tea, but every oboist is super humble and arrives 2hrs early to everything.
April 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
How come oboe sounds so classy and high minded like you’re watching over your grand estate with a chintz cup of tea, but every oboist is super humble and arrives 2hrs early to everything.